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Nikki Stone1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-02-10 09:36 AM
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American Mantra: Free Market Capitalism and Obama
http://dailycensored.com/2009/12/31/american-mantra-free-market-capitalism-and-obama/

Free Market Capitalism remains the dominant American ideological truth. The decline of communism opened the door for unrepentant free marketers to boldly espouse market competition as the final solution for global harmony. According to the American mantra, if given the opportunity to freely develop, the marketplace will solve all evils. We will enjoy economic expansion, individual freedom, and unlimited bliss by fully deregulating and privatizing society’s socio-economic institutions.

The selection of Obama as the U.S. President placed into power the party of the trilateralist wing of the American corporate elite. Obama’s business/government revolving-door cabinet is comprised of just as many corporate CEO’s and business elites as any presidency in recent history. This new government elite will continue the work to see that the American mantra remains safe, globalized, and unchallenged.

Pesky socialist or nationalist leaning governments will be undermined, pressured into compliance or even invaded if they dare to resist the American mantra. The full force of U.S. dominated global institutions: WTO, World Bank, IMF, NAFTA, will focus on maximizing free market circumstances and corporate access to every region of the world.

Economic safety nets, environmental regulations, labor unions, human rights, become second place to the free flow of capital and investments. Indigenous resisters face overt repression, disappearance, or imprisonment by governments fully armed and supported by the American dominated New World Order....

....A closer examination of the American mantra reveals that “free market” essentially means constant international U.S. government intervention on behalf of American corporations. A public-private partnership that utilizes U.S. embassies, the CIA, FBI, NSA, U.S. Military, Homeland Security, Department of Commerce, USAID, and every other U.S government institution to protect, sustain, and directly support our vital interest —U.S. business.....

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maryf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-02-10 10:04 AM
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1. If we can't feel for the world, how about for the US?
"The American mantra affects the U.S. population as well. Poverty and unemployment are rising, the working poor expanding and homelessness one pay check away for many." and many already there...

Its not just Free Market Capitalism...

K&R
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StarfarerBill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-02-10 11:46 AM
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2. Free markets = monopolies.
Hence, there's no such thing as the former because the latter will inevitably occur without regulation.
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Nikki Stone1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-02-10 04:09 PM
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4. +1
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amborin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-02-10 12:14 PM
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3. KNR
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Nikki Stone1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-02-10 04:48 PM
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anonymous171 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-02-10 05:05 PM
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6. Business is going global. Soon they won't need our military.
I wonder what will happen to us then?
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Nikki Stone1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-02-10 06:12 PM
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7. They'll always need the military. (And it's not really ours, even though we paid for it.)
It's the only way they are going to get people to go along with the self destruction they have planned for them: threaten to drop a nuke or white phosphorous, among other things.
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